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| Career | |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | December 12 1966 |
| Commissioned: | September 14 1967 |
| Fate: | In service |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,407 tonnes |
| Length: | 135.8 metres |
| Beam: | 17.7 metres |
| Draught: | 3.9 metres |
| Speed: | 15 knots |
| Complement: | 51 |
| Propulsion: | |
| Range: | |
| Armament: | 4 Oerlikon 20mm guns
4 7.62mm machine guns |
| Aviation: | |
RFA Sir Tristram is a Landing Ship Logistics of the Round Table class. It was launched in 1966, and accepted into British Army service in 1967. As with others of its class, it was taken over by the Royal Navy in 1970. The ship saw service in the Falklands War, and was badly damaged at Fitzroy on June 8.
Following a major rebuild, Tristram reentered active service in 1985, and has since seen service in the Gulf War, and also against Iraq in 2003.